Another topic: Funding:The KDE people made a Debian+KDE CD. They thought it would be fair thatthe money should be spent in equal shares to the Debian Project and theKDE project. Bruce Perens decided to pass the money on to the GNOMEsinstead....

KDE does get a lot of funding from major players in the industrie:E.g.: SuSE GmbH, Caldera Inc, LST Software GmbH, o'Reilly, JF Lehmanns,Delix GmbH, Delta Internet, LiVe and lots of others including MAJOR unixhardware companies (KDE is NOT Linux only!).

The total funding does exceed the $1000 by much more than an order of amagnitude.